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Jan 26 2009
How do you know the relative weight of a scientific paper? Is it well respected in the field? Often Cited? Maslov and Redner discuss the Promise and Pitfalls of Extending Google’s PageRank Algorithm to Citation Networks. Interestingly, of the top 10 papers by pagerank, 9 are by Nobel Prize winners.
Jan 11 2009
Mr. Fusion coming closer to reality everyday. An Instructables on converting your Accord to run on trash. I have to say, the resulting plastic flextube and boiler look is not nearly as slick as the original Mr. Fusion styling. Maybe the key innovation between now and 2015 is not the actual technology, but the aesthetics. […]
Jan 06 2009
Hallelujah, Picasa for Mac has been released. I never could get used to iPhoto and it’s foibles, always wishing there was a Picasa release for the Mac. This also allows you to standardize on one photo organizer for all platforms. Fantastic!
Jan 06 2009
The recent genesis post reminded me of Stephen Wolfram’s A New Kind of Science, and prompted me to check its Amazon listing. I thought there must be many people who never read it, and would now be trying to sell it used. Sure enough, there’s more than 100 copies available for $11 and up. However […]
Jan 06 2009
Interesting article on Wired from a few months ago that was brought to my attention by their end-of-year best-of post: Biologists on the Verge of Creating New Form of Life It’s interesting that there are a variety of primitive bacteria and archaea that are still hanging around the planet, but the simple precursors of them […]
Jan 03 2009
I have noticed for many years, that when I come into contact with a new concept, word, or fact, that I have seemingly never come across before, it will reappear again one or two times in the following fortnight. I’ve never had a name for it, but let’s call it the Serendipity Effect. I used […]
